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4 de may. de 2024 · Defunct. 1752 (1752) Key people. James II, Charles II. Products. Gold, silver, ivory, humans. The Royal African Company ( RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. [1] It was overseen by the Duke of York, the brother of Charles II of England;
3 de may. de 2024 · In 1660, King Charles II of England chartered the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa. This granted its investors a monopoly on English trade in West Africa, mostly for gold. After falling into debt, it reorganized and obtained a new charter in 1672 as the Royal African Company.
1 de abr. de 2024 · These responded to a number of features in the slave economy, such as the structural weaknesses of the Royal African Company, the British monopoly slave trading company, concentrating on large depots in Barbados or Jamaica which led to a relative underserving of various small colonies.
Hace 3 días · The Royal African Company usually refused to deliver slaves to Spanish colonies, though they did sell them to all comers from their factories in Kingston, Jamaica and Bridgetown, Barbados.: 451 In 1682, Spain allowed governors from Havana, Porto Bello, Panama, and Cartagena, Colombia to procure slaves from Jamaica.
Hace 6 días · Some companies like the East India Company (the most famous), the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Royal African Company ruled large colonial possessions (especially in India), but the Hudson's Bay Company took control of the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Canada as Rupert's Land, and the Royal African Company started to ship slaves from ...
Hace 2 días · In 1672, the Royal African Company received a new charter from Charles II. It set up forts and factories, maintained troops, and exercised martial law in West Africa in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and African slaves.
Hace 2 días · He notes how the fierce rivalry among the chartered companies that dominated the trade in the 1600s – the Royal African Company of England and the Dutch West India Company foremost among them – led to open commercial violence and the establishment of the Gold Coast forts including Elmina and Cape Coast Castle.
